Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 44

Fuscous Honeyeater

Volume IV, plate 44 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Fuscous Honeyeater (Ptilotula fusca)
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Printed on the plate

“Fuscous Honey-eater”

Ptilotis fusca

Engraved caption: Ptilotis fusca

Modern identification

Fuscous Honeyeater

Ptilotula fusca

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Honeyeaters · Meliphagidae

Why

Fuscous Honeyeater

Sources

List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk; pinned in Featherframe (gould_australia.yaml)

Who made the plate

J. & E. Gould del et lith.C. Hullmandel Imp.

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